Professor Jane Pirkis

Director, Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global HealthUniversity of Melbourne

Professor Jane Pirkis is the Director of the Centre for Mental Health and currently holds a National Health and Medical Council Senior Research Fellowship. She prides herself on conducting research that is useful to policy-makers and practitioners. Her research is conducted within a population health framework, and involves epidemiological studies of risk and protective factors for mental illness and suicide, as well as evaluations of large-scale mental health and suicide prevention programs.